Word: haven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
...masquerade in the Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom for its Pension Fund, the Philharmonic lured in 1,200 masked dancers, twice the number that attended two previous open-faced fund-raising parties. Among the celebrities and socialites who showed up (at $25 a ticket): the white-tied Marquess of Milford Haven and his American fiancee, Mrs. Romaine Simpson; black-tied ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia and Queen Alexandra; Warren Austin, permanent U.S. delegate to the U.N., and Mrs. Austin, wearing a notably fancy mask which partygoers took to be a huge butterfly whipped up by a famous designer. She finally disclosed...
...James Thurber), but it never climbed into the Hooperating Top Ten or struck most network executives as hilariously funny. When Goodman Ace, 50, was fired two years ago by CBS, a sympathetic vice president tried to soften the blow by saying : "I'll tell you a secret-we haven't got a man who understands comedy." Ace replied: "I'll tell you a secret-that's no secret...
Little boasts, however, that his car has other less dubious advantages. "I travel about 100 miles a week in it, and make about 25 miles on a gallon. New tires only cost $9 and, except for a few blowouts, I haven't had any trouble to speak...
...Pudding plans ten performances in Cambridge, one in New Haven, and four in New York...